Weekly Dev Update #134

Hey y’all, 

This week has been huge for Session, with our userbase more than doubling! With this in mind, we’ve been racing to roll out the Session protocol so all new users will have the best possible experience. The Lokinet team has been trying to track down a crash occurring in Lokinet on all platforms as well as investigating the creation of a library implementation of Lokinet, for integration into other applications. The Loki Core team finished a large amount of rebranding work. 

Oxen Core 

• Update Gitmodules for RandomXL https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-core/pull/1392

• Improved uptime proof message structure https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-core/pull/1370

• Deb packaging updates for Oxen rebrand (https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-core/tree/debian/sid, https://github.com/jagerman/loki-storage-server/tree/debian/sid, https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-mq/tree/debian/sid)

• [OxenMQ] LokiMQ renamed to OxenMQ https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-mq/pull/30, https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-storage-server/pull/407, https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-core/pull/1391 

• [Storage server] Oxen rebrand https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-storage-server/pull/399

• [Storage server] New CI build system https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-storage-server/pull/403

• [Storage server] Updated dependencies and dependency building https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-storage-server/pull/400

• [Storage server] Rebrand backwards compatibility fixes https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-storage-server/pull/405 https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-storage-server/pull/404 

• [LokiMQ] Add deferred reply API https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-mq/pull/31

Lokinet 

This past week in Lokinet was focused on finishing the tun refactor code, along with debugging a rare but recurring crash triggered by the tun refactor. We also started work on the next step for Lokinet, tentatively called “liblokinet” (pending the Lokinet rebrand): an embedded library version of Lokinet that will allow integrating Lokinet connectivity into desktop and mobile applications without requiring a full Lokinet installation on the operating system. We are currently considering different approaches (such as making use of the QUIC protocol) for ensuring reliable message delivery streams over such a Lokinet connection.

• Fix build server name and path https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1516

• Prevent crash by removing duplicate logic https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1515

• Downgrade required libuv version to 1.18 so that builds work on Ubuntu Bionic and later https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1514 

• Update readme.md https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1512

• Build libuv via the same StaticBuild system as most of our other dependencies https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1511

• Fix minor build issues caused by tun refactor PR https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1509 

Session

Session iOS 

• Multi device and account restoration V2 https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/333

• Raise closed group size to 100 members https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/335

• Fix various voice message issues https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/332 

• Re-organise files https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/331 

• Fix attachments sometimes failing to download https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/330 

Session Android 

• Spanish translation fix https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/401 

•  https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/commits/master 

Session Desktop

• Remove RSS open group handling https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1439

• Fix baning users & remove the difference between groupAdmins and moderators https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1438 

• Fix moderator dialogues https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1437 

• Fix adding/removing moderator dialogues and group information dialogues https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1436  

• Session 1.4.5 release https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1435

• Remove prekey message and Session management https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1434 , https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1427 

Thanks,  

Kee